I have a small business LLC S-Corp. I have a one person defined benefit in place for the last 5 years. Funded until 2017. In 2018, I am unable to fund the required amount owing to significant personal losses and am considering closing the LLC. I was told by my retirement plan folks that there would be an excise penalty and would still have to fund 2018. That doesn't sound right. What is the penalty and the process of closure?

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An employer sponsored a 401k plan long ago -- pre-2010. They terminated the plan and everyone was distributed. The employer then started a Simple IRA and has been using that ever since. They have discontinued the Simple IRA and want to start a 401k again for 2019 (traditional 401k, non safe harbor). The new plan would be treated as NOT Top-Heavy because all the distributions were more than 5 years ago. The owner wants to roll over money from an IRA that contains the original distribution from the prior plan. Would doing this make the plan TH immediately (assuming his account is more than 60% of the EOY account balances)? I am thinking that it would be a related rollover, and that by putting it back into a plan sponsored by the same employer, it would have to be counted in the TH calculation. Agree?

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